This chapter analyses the translation of the right of access to public information. This right, also termed freedom of information or right to know, has been systematized in the UN and regional human-rights regimes since the 1990s and is of medium precision. The chapter describes how two different framings of this norm – as a tool to achieve transitional justice and as a means of fighting corruption – were advanced by separate transnational coalitions but that when resistance made itself felt, both coalitions proved willing to accept deviations from the global standards. A more inclusive dialogue-process ultimately led to a reshaping of the global standards.